jpdb beta

misfortune; adverse fortune; hapless fate; checkered (life, career, etc.); varied; eventful

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can do nothing but (do); cannot help (doing) something

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embarrassed; self-conscious; bashful; abashed

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I-novel; novel narrated in the first person

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to project; to stand out; to jut out; to go somewhere (e.g. for work); to proceed to; to leave for

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creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright

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afterword; postscript

2

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.

15

great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad

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writer; author

4

I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt

2

family; relatives; dependents; household

2

extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

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crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

3

to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

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to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

3

living in obscurity; lying low; remaining unnoticed

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fish and chips

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hunger; starvation

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to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo

1

wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do

1

what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry

1

dressing oneself; personal grooming

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bookmaker; bookie; trader performing (stock market) bucketing; bucket shop

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to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

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gambling; gaming; speculation; undertaking a risky venture; (arch.) professional gambler; (arch.) gamester

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author; writer; novelist; artist

2

villainous; rascally; knavish; (arch.) independent; (arch.) self-reliant

1

to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on

3

forced double suicide

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just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

3

(not) so much; (not) that much

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(an) only child

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common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

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karuna (compassion)

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the four seasons

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birds

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one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

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tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil

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seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)

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bird's egg (esp. a chicken egg); chick; baby bird (esp. a baby chicken); eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy); eggshell (colour); red and white oval rice cakes

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biological child; one's own child

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once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime

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victory or defeat; match; contest; game

2

to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback; (arch.) to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.)

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post-natal; since birth

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voice; cry; shout

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to believe implicitly; to believe firmly

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cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine

4

to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble

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